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Samos is the island airport with the most notorious landing approaches in Greece. It involves pure “stick n’ rudder” demanding hand-type of flying in between mountains, without navigation instruments guidance, moderate or higher turbulence due to terrain, the FIR border just on the airport’s pattern and tight turns short before lining up for last stage of final approach to land.

“I have operated for years into some really demanding airports such as Gibraltar, Innsbruck, Madeira, La Palma. But Samos approaches are still at the top of my list as the most challenging and exciting!" - Giorgio La Pira, A380 Pilot (formerly A320 Examiner)

These are only a few of the reasons why we have decided that this challenging and interesting airport would be the perfect addition to our Greek island series following Mykonos and Skiathos. This scenery depicts every aspect of its real counterpart in great detail using the latest techniques of flight simulation development.

Compatibility Patches:

✓FTX Global

Awards:

Reviews

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Lars P05/03/2017

Monokuro.eu reviews Samos (German)

29Palms' "Samos International Airport" is an incredibly well done adoption of one of Greece’s most favorite holiday islands. Not only is the new scenery a highly detailed rendition of the airport and large parts of the island, even the manual and other relevant information that come with the scenery package are very intriguing and make the flying experience more rewarding and for some of us even possible, because it gives clear instructions on the procedures for one of the most difficult approaches in the flightsim world.

- Jan Gütter, monokuro.eu

Source: https://monokuro.eu/?p=2521

1 out of 1 people found this review useful.

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Markus B12/10/2016

Wonderful scenery!

Absolutely amazing scenery; Beautiful modelling and texturing, huge number of configuration options, great performance, just a work art.

I'm pleased that not the entire island was covered with a photo texture, that is not necessary for airliner flying if ORBX FTX Global, OpenLC EU and Vector are used. Speaking of ORBX: The scenery can optionally be colour-matched to FTX Global! This is highly appreciated and there are still too many other developers out there without this option.

1 out of 1 people found this review useful.

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Chris Matsoukas11/30/2016

Samos

Excellent rendition of the airport and the surrounding area as always from 29Palms. It' a must have if you're flying to south Europe. I cannot wait for all of 29Palm's airport to be release for X-plane so I can have the quality (moved there finally).

1 out of 1 people found this review useful.

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John Eckersall08/18/2016

Lars and his team outclass all the others

I have done some scenery creations but this company take it to a different level. Fast, efficient and gorgeous design, you have to be told that its not real!! Samos is almost perfect, just like Skiathos and Mykonos. Absolutely brilliant

2 out of 2 people found this review useful.

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Lars P08/03/2016

FSElite reviews Samos 9.8/10

"I have never been so immersed with a product within Flight Sim outside of an aircraft. I am constantly finding new things to love about Samos, and I’m sure you will do too. With a reasonable price, challenging approach and a host of features, Samos needs to be in your scenery library and will remain there for years to come."

Performance: The performance is perfect and there are no VAS problems even if you fly in from a heavy airport like the Aerosoft Frankfurt 2.

Scenery Configurator: + Easy to use + Many options to adjust the scenery + Good explanations of the options and their impact + Options for people who use the avatar + Support inside is very good Note: Lets have a look how updating will be but the plan is very promising.

Support: + Fast and good

Conclusion: This Addon is awesome and it is a absolutly must-have. The airport is very challenging and you have to show all your skills for a good landing especially when you have a weather tool like FSGRW too. But this scenery isn't only for people who fly even for people who want to discover things with the avatar. FANTASTIC work ! I can only look forward to other masterpieces.

1 out of 1 people found this review useful.

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Ben07/11/2016

A masterpiece!

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Martin Jensen07/10/2016

A Masterpiece

Scenery: Everything that a simmer could possibly ask for in terms of simulation relevant eye candy, with options to add even a touch more than one would need. From relevant landmarks, to awesome details - including waterdrains, animated ramp people, flags and what not. The surrounding villages are superbly represented and makes for a perfect visual approach to 09.

Performance: Now - in my experience - adding a whole lot af things to a scenery is for everyone, but creating it in such a manner, that simmers with medium systems (2600K/970GTX) can crank all eyecandy up and still experience excellent performance, is a true work of art. I run my prepar3d with most sliders full right at 3xDSR and 4xAA (autogens at dense), 3 km cloud shadows, and shadows from autogen on, along with FTX global, vector, EU landclass, ASN and get excellent performance in the Aerosoft airbus, even with all scenery items turned on. Simply hard to believe!

Support: I had misread the manual regarding the option to disable markings on one of the aprons, so I reached out to the developer via the build in message service in the scenery configurator. Within one hour, I had the pleasure of excellent, friendly and helpful support.

Other Someone commented, that this scenery was a "labor of love", and I must agree that it feel so in every aspect!

Just like the other sceneries I own from 29 palms, they set a new standard every time they hit the market.

Thank you for taking my money in return for this marvel, and I look forward to future projects.

I highly recommend this scenery to everyone!

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Jordan V07/10/2016

A new level of scenery design!

Samos by 29Palms is BY FAR the best looking scenery I have experienced in FSX. I couldn't stop flying over again and again to take it all in. Performance is stellar. This truly raises the bar in high end add on scenery. Do yourself a favor and buy this beautiful piece of art!